APT-accredited mental health training courses of the highest quality

If you are looking for the best, evidence-based training in mental health then we believe you have found it. Every bona fide APT course automatically carries APT accreditation with it, backed by the weight of over 100,000 professionals having attended APT courses since foundation in 1981 - mainly from the UK National Health and Social Services, although with a significant number from independent health providers. Our tutors form a resource probably unequalled in the UK, and APT has a deserved reputation for being the benchmark in mental health training and related areas. View courses

Onsite Courses

The majority of our mental health training courses are provided this way - we come to you and train a group of up to 15 people.

Featured Courses

'DBT Essentials' Training

APT's School for Tutors

APT tutors have a reputation second to none, and APT’s School for Tutors is the course that teaches the standard, turning those with the aptitude into excellent tutors. A major benefit for successful graduates of this course is that they can tutor APT courses in their home organisations, thereby saving employers half of the course fee for every course they tutor.

Motivational Interviewing and The Stages of Change™

Combining Miller and Rollnick's Motivational Interviewing with Prochaska and DiClemente's Stages of Change, this course describes a powerful system for having people acknowledge and do something about their problems.

Repairing the Damage™

The RAID® Course for Working with Challenging Behaviour

The positive psychology approach to working with extreme behaviour to tackle it at source. Already attended by over 15,000 UK professionals, this is a ‘standard’ in leading facilities where there is challenging behaviour.

The Professional Management of Suicide Risk & Suicidality™

For the professional, 'suicide prevention' is a question of risk assessment and management. For the client, it's a question of building a life that is worth living. This course shows you the complete package: how to assess and manage risk, but mainly how to help the person build a life worth living.

The ADDRESS® Course for Working with Personality Disorder

Personality Disorder is sometimes regarded as one of the more intractable problems in the mental health world. The ADDRESS® Course takes an opposing view, arguing that it is one of the most fascinating, and providing a systematic approach to working with it.

BSFT Essentials (Brief, Solution-Focused Therapy)

CBT Plus, with Alcohol and Substance Misuse

Integrating modern 5-factor CBT with Motivational Interviewing and Behavioural Couples Therapy this course advocates a brief and effective approach to working with the misuse of alcohol and other mood altering substances.

The APT Diploma in CBT

A course we bring to your organisation for up to 12 people to attend, providing 200 hours of focused training, examinations of the knowledge gained, and projects associated with each of the specialised modules. The design of the course is intended to help delegates in their application for BABCP accreditation if they wish to pursue this and automatically gains you APT Level 3* accreditation in each of the subjects you pass. Above all it is designed to make you a more knowledgeable and effective clinician.

Realising Recovery™

The Recovery philosophy comes originally from service users, and professionals do right to try to understand and incorporate it, so this course is about Realising Recovery in terms of just what the philosophy implies, and also 'realising' it in terms of making it come true for service users.